Searching for Online Books in the SCC Library

Using Electronic Books Using Electronic Encyclopedias

Electronic Books

(1) To find electronic books click the "Electronic Books" link found on the right hand side of the library webpage http://library.sccsc.edu under the heading Books, Videos...

 

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(2) The library has a collection of over 40,000 electronic books. To search click on E-books.

 

 

(3) Ebooks will let you search by “Keyword,” “Title,” “Author” and “Full Text.”  Selecting the  “Full Text” radio button allows you to search every single page of the 40,000+ books.  

Here we are doing a full text search for job interviews. Putting “job interviews” in quotation marks tells Ebooks to search this as a phrase (i.e. only find items that have the word “job” right by the word “interviews.”)  Click on “Search” to enter the search

 

 

(4) A list of the books that fit your search are displayed. Clicking on the “Show Details” link will give you further information about the book. To get to the book itself, click on “View this eBook."

 

 

(5) The book will appear on the right side of the screen. Clicking on “Previous” or “Next” turns the page. The table of contents appears on the left side of the page

 

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Electronic Encyclopedias

(1) To find electronic encyclopedias click the "Electronic Books" link found on the right hand side of the library webpage http://library.sccsc.edu under the heading Books, Videos..

 

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(2) The library has four online encyclopedias listed on the Electronic Books page. To get to any of these, just click on the title.

 

(3) Britannica Online gives you the choice of searching the encyclopedia, a dictionary or a thesaurus. To search the encyclopedia, enter your terms in the top box and click on “Go.”

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(4) The results appear with articles from the Encyclopedia Britannica, a student encyclopedia, and the Internet.  Clinking on a title will take you to the article or web site.

 

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(5) To print the article, click on “Print this Article,” located at the top of the article. You can also email the article to yourself.

 

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To learn more about the library, please come by and see us! We are in the Library Learning Rsource Center on the SCC Central Campus.

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